today i learned (til)
Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy
Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?
You hear someone speak to you, but nobody is around. What if that was your reality? Being...
Mind Over Matter: How Brain Implants Are Making Telekinesis Real
Imagine a world where you can move objects and complete tasks simply by thinking about them. Sounds like a pretty relaxing and too-good-to-be-true idea,...
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and the Protection of Sensitive Genetic Data
In today's data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available...
Benefits of Composting: why you should start composting now!
There is less than 5% of residential food waste that is currently being composted around the world. To be exact, about 3.7% as of...
Color Vision Deficiency and the new Glasses on Facebook
Color vision deficiency, also known as colorblindness, is more common than one might think. 0.6 percent of women and 8 percent of men are...
The Alien Equation
Throughout history, humanity’s view of the universe has changed drastically. For a long time, people believed that the Earth was all there was, with...
Rethinking Radiation
In 1896, the French scientist Henri Becquerel observed spontaneous emissions from uranium and called this phenomenon radiation. The first recorded radiation treatment occurred the...
Microbial Mirth
Here are a few of the memes I made throughout the semester for BIOS 4607, Molecular Biology of Microbes, taught by Dr. Brian Hammer....
Children of the Night
As William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England, marking the end of the Glorious Revolution and economic dominance of the Dutch...
Reacciones Nucleares y Exploración Espacial: “Direct Fusion Drive”
Se usaron los cohetes por primera vez en China en siglo XIII. Fueron tubos de bambú que se llenaron de pólvora y se fijaron...